Nepal
My photographs of Nepal come from two days in the Kathmandu Valley in September 2022, after flying up from Delhi at the start of a trip through India and Nepal. The first began in the rain at Pashupatinath, the great temple of Shiva in Kathmandu, carried on through the old royal squares of Bhaktapur, and ended at Nagarkot, on the valley’s eastern rim, with the Himalayas hidden in cloud. The second was Kathmandu itself: Swayambhunath on its hill, then Durbar Square, the house of the living goddess, and Kaal Bhairav in the evening.
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Kaal Bhairav, where people accused of crimes were once brought to tell the truth. Kathmandu
Kaal Bhairav in Durbar Square, the house of the living goddess, Swayambhunath on its hill, and Pashupatinath across the Bagmati.
A street of shops in Bhaktapur, selling juju dhau, the city’s sweet curd. Bhaktapur
A rainy afternoon in the old royal city: Durbar Square, the rebuilt Fasidega temple, and the fifteenth-century Peacock Window.
The view from Nagarkot, with the Himalayas hidden behind the clouds. Nagarkot
The view from the eastern rim of the Kathmandu Valley, ridge after green ridge, with the Himalayas hidden in cloud.